Agni (missile)

The Agni missile is a family of medium to intercontinental range ballistic missiles developed by India, named after one of the five elements of nature. Agni missiles are long-range,... Wikipedia

  • Type:  Medium-range ballistic missile (Agni-I, Agni-II, Agni Prime), Intermediate-range ballistic missile (Agni-III, Agni-IV), Intercontinental ballistic missile (Agni-V, Agni VI)
  • Place of origin:  India
  • In service:  Active
  • Used by:  India
  • Designer:  Defence Research and Development Organisation
  • Manufacturer:  Bharat Dynamics Limited
  • Weight:  12,000 kg (Agni-I), 16,000 kg (Agni-II), 48,000 kg (Agni III), 17,000 kg (Agni-IV), 49,000 kg (Agni-V), 55,000 kg (Agni VI), 11,000 kg (Agni P)
  • Length:  15 m (Agni-I), 21 m (Agni-II), 17 m (Agni-III), 20 m (Agni-IV), 17.5 m (Agni-V), 10.5 m(Agni-P)
  • Diameter:  1.0 m (Agni-I, Agni-II), 2.0 m (Agni-III, Agni-IV, Agni V), 1.1 m (Agni VI), 1.15 m (Agni P)
  • Warhead:  Conventional high explosive-unitary, penetration, cluster munitions, incendiary weapon, thermobaric, strategic nuclear weapon
  • Engine:  Composite rocket motor
  • Propellant:  Solid fuel
  • Operational, range:  700–1,200 km (Agni-I), 1,000–2,000 km (Agni Prime), 2,000–3,500 km (Agni-II), 3,000–5,000 km (Agni-III), 3,500–4,000 km (Agni-IV), 7,000–8,000 km (Agni-V), 11,000–12,000 km (Agni VI)
  • Flight altitude:  300 km (Agni-I), 230 km (Agni-II), 350 km (Agni-III)
  • Speed:  24 Mach (Agni-V)
  • Guidance, system:  Mid-course: Ring laser gyro inertial navigation system with GPS/NavIC satellite guidance, Terminal: Imaging infrared homing, radar scene correlation, active radar homing
  • Launch, platform:  Road/Rail mobile
  • Data source:  DuckDuckGo
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